[Insight-users] A challenge to all Windows users

[John Drescher]

> Many of you have probably been following my epic struggles to get ITK
> working under Windows in another thread.  I have decided that the solution
> to my problem might be more forthcoming if I issue a challenge to all the
> Windows users out there.
>
> I realize that many of you have ITK up and running and you have no problems
> compiling it.  My guess is that you got your systems set up and worked out
> the bugs when you started and have just been cruising along since then.

I do not recall any bugs. Everything worked right out of the box on
each of my builds from ITK-3.12 to ITK-3.16. But I am not using MinGW.
I have used visual studio 2003, 2005 and 2008 on 32 and 64 bit
compilers and at minimum 1/2 dozen different machines.

> I
> am trying to get ITK working for the first time and have had nothing but
> trouble, and even after sorting out some major mistakes caused by my
> inexperience my errors seem to be confusing to the people who are trying to
> help me.  So this brings me to the challenge.
>
> I would like some of you Windows users to start fresh on a computer that has
> never had ITK or CMake or MinGW or any of that stuff on it and get ITK
> running from scratch, and then tell me step by step what you have done.  The
> reason I ask you to start with a system that has never had any of these
> programs installed is in case there are any hidden configuration issues that
> are already set on your existing systems (environment variables, registry
> settings, anything like that).
>
> I have tried to get ITK working on two different systems, the first is
> 64-bit Windows 7 and the second is 32-bit Windows XP SP3.  I don't have any
> particular affinity for any specific compiler, I have been trying to use
> MinGW but if there is something else that works (preferably free) I am open
> to anything.  I think maybe this would be easier than me saying "Ok, now I'm
> getting this error" and having people try to figure out what I've done
> wrong.
>
> If someone can accept the challenge please respond with the steps you used
> to get ITK up and running from scratch, including things like:
>
> 1) where you downloaded the installation files